| 2003 | American forces capture Sadam Hussen outside of Tikrit |
| 2001 | Terrorists break into parliament building in New Delhi, murder at least 12 |
| 2000 | Al Gore concedes presidential election, George W. Bush named president |
| 1997 | 63rd Heisman Trophy Award: Charles Woodson, Michigan (CB) |
| 1996 | Free agent Roger Clemens signs with Toronto Blue Jays |
| 1995 | Christopher Reeves released from physical rehab center |
| 1995 | U.S. Federal Court votes that Cable companies must carry local stations |
| 1994 | American Eagle commuter plane crashes in NC, killing 15 |
| 1993 | Deadline for Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza, they don't |
| 1993 | Dow Jones hits record 3764.43 |
| 1993 | Fire in textile factory in Fuzjou China, 60 killed |
| 1993 | Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), lands |
| 1992 | "Show Off" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 45 performances |
| 1992 | Dawn Coe-Jone wins Pizza-La LPGA Match Play Golf Championship |
| 1992 | FCC fines Infinity Broadcasting $600,000 |
| 1991 | Both Koreas sign an accord calling for reconcilliation |
| 1991 | NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud |
| 1991 | Ricky Pierce (Seattle) ends NBA free throw streak of 75 games |
| 1990 | "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 45 performances |
| 1990 | Heavy earthquake strikes Sicily, 18 die |
| 1990 | President De Klerk of South Africa meets with Mandela to talk of end of apartheid |
| 1989 | Walter Davis (Denver) ends NBA free throw streak of 53 games |
| 1988 | 3 men end 29-hour all-466-station subway ride in New York City |
| 1988 | Arafat addresses United Nations in Geneva |
| 1987 | Belgium Christian Democrats (CVP) loses parliamentary election |
| 1987 | Browns set club record for most points scored in a quarter, 28 |
| 1987 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1985 | David Boon's 1st Test century, 123 vs. India at Adelaide |
| 1985 | Test debut of Merv Hughes, Geoff Marsh and Bruce Reid (v India) |
| 1984 | Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers 1st stroke |
| 1983 | 9,655 see highest-scoring NBA game: Detroit 186, Denver 184 (3 OT) |
| 1983 | British Airways incorporates |
| 1983 | Islander's Butch Goring scorings 4 goals against Oilers |
| 1983 | KYA-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KOIT |
| 1983 | Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's 1st female governor |
| 1982 | 71st Australian Mens Tennis: Johan Kriek beats Steve Denton (63 63 62) |
| 1982 | Earthquake hits Northern Yemen; 2,000 die |
| 1981 | 70th Davis Cup: USA beats Argentina in Cincinnati (3-1) |
| 1981 | Polish government declares martial law, arrests Solidarity activists |
| 1980 | "Perfectly Frank" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| 1979 | "Oklahoma!" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 301 performances |
| 1979 | Strikes against price increases in Gdansk Poland |
| 1978 | Susan B. Anthony dollar, 1st U.S. coin to honor a woman, issued |
| 1977 | 14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash |
| 1976 | Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur |
| 1976 | Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to San Francisco 13h14m) |
| 1975 | 1st time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay - Richard Pryor as host |
| 1975 | Australian Conservatives and Liberals win parliamentary election |
| 1975 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA 14 Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament |
| 1975 | Roy Fredericks hits 169 vs. Australia at WACA, hundred in 71 balls |
| 1975 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1974 | Jim "Catfish" Hunter wins free agent claim against A's owner Finley |
| 1974 | Malta becomes a republic |
| 1973 | MPLA/FNLA accord about combat against Portuguese Libya |
| 1973 | World Football League grants 1st franchise (Detroit) |
| 1971 | John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed |
| 1970 | Greg Chappell scores 108 on Test debut vs. England at the WACA |
| 1970 | Neil Simon's "Gingerbread Lady," premieres in New York City |
| 1969 | Arlo Guthrie releases "Alice's Restaurant" |
| 1969 | Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager |
| 1968 | Playland at Beach reopens |
| 1968 | President Da Costa e Silva disbands parliament/grabs power |
| 1967 | United Soccer Association and National Pro Soccer League merge into NASL |
| 1967 | Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II |
| 1966 | 1st U.S. bombing of Hanoi |
| 1966 | 1st battle for Bijlmer flats Amsterdam |
| 1966 | Test debut of Clive Lloyd, vs. India Bombay, 82 and 78 |
| 1966 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1965 | Algerian president Boumedienne visits Moscow |
| 1964 | Shirley Englehorn and Sam Snead wins Haig and Haig Mixed Foursome Golf |
| 1964 | In El Paso, Texas, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border |
| 1963 | Capital records signs right of 1st refusal agreement with Beatles |
| 1962 | Relay 1 communication satellite launched |
| 1961 | Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein |
| 1961 | Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann |
| 1961 | Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music 1st million $ seller |
| 1960 | Italy beats U.S. in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years U.S. not in finals) |
| 1960 | Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane |
| 1959 | Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus |
| 1956 | Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield and $35,000 Robinson retires |
| 1953 | KOAM TV channel 7 in Pittsburg-Joplin, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1951 | Future British Prime Minister Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher |
| 1950 | "Let's Make an Opera" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| 1950 | James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial |
| 1949 | AL votes down proposal to revive spitball |
| 1949 | Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem |
| 1947 | "Caribbean Carnival" closes at International New York City after 11 performances |
| 1947 | Maine Turnpike opens to traffic |
| 1946 | Leon Blum elected French premier |
| 1944 | Japanese kamikaze crashes into U.S. cruiser Nashville, kills 138 |
| 1944 | Norman Krasna's "Dear Ruth," premieres in New York City |
| 1943 | 150 U.S. Marauders bomb Schiphol |
| 1942 | Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to call himself Leader |
| 1942 | Washington Redskins defeat Chicago Bears 14-6, to win NFL title |
| 1941 | German occupiers forbid National Front and Netherland Union |
| 1941 | Lawine battlers destroy Haaraz, Peru; about 3,000 die |
| 1941 | U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier Ark Royal |
| 1939 | Battle at La Plata - 3 British cruisers vs German Graf Spee |
| 1938 | Los Angeles freezes at 28 degrees F |
| 1936 | Final Boston Redskin NFL game, lose to Packers 21-6, move to Washington D.C. |
| 1936 | Green Bay Packers win NFL championship |
| 1934 | Mark Hellinger Theater (Warner Bros) opens at 237 W 51st St. New York City |
| 1930 | George Sisler's career ends when Boston Braves release him |
| 1930 | Theodore Steeg forms French government |
| 1928 | Clip-on tie designed |
| 1928 | George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (New York City) |
| 1924 | KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions |
| 1922 | Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players' sleeves or caps |
| 1920 | F Pease's interferometer measures 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse) |
| 1920 | League of nations establishes International Court of Justice in The Hague |
| 1920 | Netherland breaks contact with kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slavia |
| 1919 | Ross and Smith land in Australia from a flight from London |
| 1918 | U.S. Army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany |
| 1918 | Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France) |
| 1916 | Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian and Italian troops in 24 hours in Tyrol |
| 1916 | Esme Stuart Lennox Robinsons premieres in Dublin |
| 1916 | French chief of staff Joffre replaced by Nivelle |
| 1913 | Mona Lisa stolen in Aug 1911 returned to Louvre |
| 1907 | George Gunn scores 119 on Test debut vs. Australia SCG |
| 1907 | German emperor Wilhelm II visits Amsterdam |
| 1906 | German chancellor Bernhard von Bulow disbands the Parliament |
| 1903 | Italo Marcioni patents ice cream cone in New Jersey |
| 1903 | Wright Bros make 1st flight at Kittyhawk |
| 1901 | Test debut of S F Barnes vs. Australia SCG, took 5-65 in 1st innings |
| 1900 | Battle at Nooitgedacht: generals The la Rey/Smuts beat Britten |
| 1895 | 1st complete execution of Gustav Mahlers 2nd Symphony |
| 1889 | Belgium rules on women/child labor law |
| 1879 | 1st federal fish hatching steamer lauched (Wilmington Delaware) |
| 1864 | Battle of Ft. McAllister, GA |
| 1861 | Battle of Alleghany Summit, WV |
| 1843 | "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold |
| 1833 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin arrives in Port Deseado, Patagonia |
| 1823 | Gioacchino Rossini arrives in London |
| 1816 | Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston |
| 1774 | 1st incident of Revolution-400 attack Ft. William and Mary, New Hampshire |
| 1769 | Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter |
| 1759 | 1st music store in America opens in Philadelphia |
| 1742 | Willem KH Friso tests his mothers potatoes |
| 1734 | England and Russia sign trade agreement |
| 1668 | Jean Racines "Britannicus," premieres in Paris |
| 1642 | New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman |
| 1621 | Emperor Ferdinand II delegates 1st anti-Reformation decree |
| 1577 | Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around world |
| 1572 | Spanish army beats Geuzen fleet under Admiral Lumey |
| 1570 | Sweden/Denmark signs Peace of Stettin |
| 1545 | Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opens |
| 1545 | Pope Paul III opens council of Trente |
| 1294 | Pope Coelestinus V ends term |
| 863 | Boudouin with the Iron Arm weds Charles de Kales' daughter Judith |
